The aggregates and not-self
- Day 8 Dependent Origination Pt 2 Going deep...
Delson continues his teaching on dependent origination, picking up from feeling and tracing the chain forward through contact, the underlying tendencies, craving, clinging and becoming.
- MN 18 The Honeyball - Perceptions and Notions - Self Being Created-Madhupindika Sutta
Delson reads and explains MN 18, the Madhupindika Sutta (the Honeyball), covering the Buddha's answer to Dandapani, Maha Kachana's detailed exposition, and Ananda's closing remarks.
- Day 6 Transcendental Origination
Delson explains transcendental dependent origination as the chain of conditions that leads to liberation of the mind.
- Andrzej and Delson Podcast 3 Everyday Awareness
Delson Armstrong and Andrzej discuss everyday awareness: a simple, non-conceptual knowing of what is happening that remains when the ego's stories and identifications are let go.
- Day 7 Dependent origination Part 1 of 2 The Craving and Clinging Mind
Delson presents dependent origination as an elaboration of the Four Noble Truths, retelling the Buddha's awakening story and then tracing suffering back through birth, becoming, and…
- Day 6 Last Day Thoughts -High Altitude Retreat
Delson closes a retreat by arguing that the real practice begins when people return to ordinary life, where enthusiasm and plans often fail and situations test patience and surrender.
- Day 4 High Altitude Retreat -Remember the Knowingness
Delson encourages listeners to rest in the knowing awareness they touched on the previous night, rather than trying to reach or return to it.
- Day 2 High Altitude Retreat -A story, Clinging, Bhava and Dying
Delson explains how craving and clinging arise from preferences and how the mind builds a sense of self and a personality (bhava) around them.
- Day 3 High Altitude Retreat - "Liberation" & a Guided Meditation in "Knowingness"
Delson explains liberation as an ongoing practice rather than a one-time event, and describes the three gates of liberation (signless, undirected, empty) as a way past object-based…
- MN 16 -Five Wildernesses -Weaknesses to be overcome -Cetokhila Sutta
Delson walks through MN 16, the Cetokhila Sutta, which lists five wildernesses in the heart (doubt about the Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha and training, plus resentment toward fellow…
- Day 4 Understanding Formations & How to Attain Cessation -Excellent!
Delson reads and comments on SN 41.6 (Kamabhu Sutta), in which the monk Kamabhu answers the householder Chitta's questions on the three formations, the attainment of cessation of…
- Day 3 July Retreat MN 134 -A Fine Night - The Concept of Self
Delson reads and comments on the Loma Sakangiya Bhaddekaratta Sutta (MN 134) and its stanza on the "single excellent night," which says not to revive the past or build hopes on the future…
- MN 13 The Greater Discourse on Suffering - Majjhima Series w/ Delson Armstrong
Delson reads and comments on MN 13, the Greater Discourse on Suffering (Maha Dukkhakhandha Sutta).
- Spotkanie naszej sanghi z gościem specjalnym Delsonem Armstrogimem.
Delson Armstrong answers questions from a Polish sangha in an online Q&A.
- Day 9 Dependent Origination Pt 2 - Karma Discussion
Delson explains the middle links of dependent origination, starting from the Bhaiya Sutta (Ud 1.10) and moving through feeling, contact, name and form, consciousness, formations, ignorance…
- Day 10 Last Day - AN 10.1 - The Path from Suffering to Awakening
Delson gives the last-day talk of a retreat, asking students to carry discipline and consistency back into daily life.
- Day 8 Intro to Dependent Origination-6 Craving links - Craving, Clinging, Tendencies, Birth -Part 1
Delson explains the middle links of dependent origination, from craving and clinging through becoming (bhava) and birth, as the wisdom that shows how suffering arises and ceases.
- Awakening and The Four Stages - 2nd Interview with Andrzej
Delson and Andrzej discuss awakening as an experiential understanding of the Four Noble Truths, not a mystical state or a goal to be reached.
- MN 10 Part 2 Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta-Feeling -Majjhima Series w/Delson Armstrong
Delson Armstrong continues his reading of the Satipatthana Sutta (MN 10), covering contemplation of feeling, mind, mind objects (the five hindrances, the aggregates, the six internal and…
- Day 9 Transcendental Dependent Origination - Last Day Advice
Delson walks through the links of transcendental dependent origination from SN 12.23 (the Upanisa Sutta), reading the chain in reverse from the destruction of the taints back through…
- Day 8 Dependent Origination Part 2 - Very Interesting!
Delson continues his teaching on dependent origination, moving from contact and feeling through craving, clinging, becoming and birth to suffering, and describing the seven underlying…
- Day 7 Introduction to Dependent Origination -Clinging-Craving
Delson introduces dependent origination (paticca samuppada) as the core of the Buddha's teaching on causality and conditionality, and as an elaboration of the Four Noble Truths.
- Delson Armstrong: awakening is individual, & the future of dharma
Delson Armstrong, in a long interview, explains why he has moved away from the codified TWIM system toward a more individual and less dogmatic approach to awakening.
- Delson Armstrong: the buddha on if consciousness is primary
Delson Armstrong responds to a host's question about whether consciousness or matter is primary, saying the debate is partly intellectual gymnastics.
- MN 10 Pt1 '4 Foundations of Mindfulness'-Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta - Majjhima Series with Delson Armstrong
Delson Armstrong opens his study of the Satipatthana Sutta (MN 10) by explaining the meaning of the word satipatthana as anchors for the mind in the present moment, with sati as…
- MN 8 Conceit Purifying the mind. -Sunday Sutta Series with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads and comments on MN 8, the Salekha Sutta (Effacement), in which Maha Cunda asks how views about self and world are abandoned.
- MN 2 Sabbasave Sutta-Taints -Sunday Series with Delson Armstrong
Delson walks through MN 2, the Sabbasava Sutta, on the taints (asavas) and the Buddha's teaching that they are abandoned in six ways: by seeing, restraining, using, enduring, avoiding…
- MN 1 Majjhima Nikaya Series Number 1 with Delson Armstrong-Sunday Series
Delson walks through MN 1, the Mula Pariyaya Sutta, which contrasts the untaught ordinary person, the trained bhikkhu, the arahant and the Tathagata in how each relates to earth, water…
- The Arhant & Khemaka Sutta with Delson Armstrong-(Revised)
Delson Armstrong reads and comments on two suttas, SN 1.25 (the Arahant, a deva asks the Buddha whether an arahant would still say "I speak") and SN 22.89 (Khemaka, who has let go of…
- Preview of Delson's New Book
Delson previews his new book on the Moksha Hridaya, presenting moksha as liberation of the heart.
- Did The Buddha Teach No-Self? SN 22.47 Ways of Regarding Things
Delson reads and comments on SN 22.47, arguing that the Buddha did not simply teach 'no self' but taught that the five aggregates should be seen as not-self, and that this seeing liberates…
- In the SEEN there is Only the SEEN - Sunday Sutta Session Udana 1.10 Bāhiya Sutta
Delson presents his own rendering of the Bahiya Sutta (Udana 1.10), focusing on the instruction 'in the seen, only the seen', and explains it as experiencing without a sense of 'I' that…
- Day 7 - Seven Days at St Francis: The Final Chapter
Delson closes a seven-day series by recapping the seven enlightenment factors as the basic ingredients of practice, with mindfulness at the base, leading to tranquility, collectedness and…
- Day 3 "Gates of Liberation" Oct 26-Nov2 Retreat at St Francis
Delson gives a retreat talk on transcendental dependent origination, working backward from the final link, knowledge of liberation, through the links that lead to it.
- Day 4 "Dependent Origination Part 1" Oct 26-Nov2 Retreat at St Francis
Delson continues a retreat talk on dependent origination, presenting the first two noble truths, suffering (dukkha) and its causes, as a way to see how each link can be released into…
- Day 5 "Dependent Origination Part 2" Oct 26-Nov2 Retreat at St Francis
Delson continues his review of the links of dependent origination from the latter half of the chain, covering feeling, the underlying tendencies, contact, the six sense bases…
- "Gates of Liberation" Sunday Sutta Series with Delson Armstrong
Delson explains the Gates of Liberation, the three meditations of emptiness, signlessness and undirectedness, drawn from SN 43.4, as three doors into the unconditioned (nibbana-dhatu).
- Austria 2025 | Escaping the Matrix
Delson continues a series on dependent origination, starting with vedana (feeling, which he prefers to call experience) and how it leads to craving through the underlying tendencies.
- Austria 2025 | Mechanics of Karma
Delson explains the first and second Noble Truths by unpacking dukkha as instability or "bummer" and its three categories: dukkha-dukkha, viparinama dukkha and sankhara dukkha.
- Austria 2025 | Tathātā
Delson explains the three characteristics of existence (anicca, dukkha, anatta) and the three gates of liberation (signlessness, undirectedness, emptiness) as a sequence that begins with…
- Ocean SN 35.228 - Drowning in the Ocean of the Senses - Sunday Talk with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads and comments on two short Samyutta Nikaya suttas (SN 35.228 and 35.229) that call the six sense bases an ocean.
- Aug 10 Sunday Series -AN10.6-7 Samadhi Sutta & Sariputta
Delson reads AN 10.6 (the Samadhi Sutta) and AN 10.7 (the Sariputta Sutta), in which Ananda asks how a monk can reach a concentration where he no longer perceives the elements, the…
- Day 3 Adv Retreat -SN 35.95 Malunkyaputta Sutta - I need to know now!
Delson introduces the Bahiya Sutta (Ud 1.10), where the Buddha gives a brief teaching that in the seen there is only the seen, and then reads and explains SN 35.95, the Malunkyaputta…
- Day 7 First 6 Links of Dependent Origination
Delson walks through the early links of dependent origination, starting from suffering and tracing back through craving, feeling, the underlying tendencies, contact, the six sense bases…
- Day 9 Last Day -Ending Samsara
Delson closes his final retreat talk by asking listeners how they will carry the practice back into ordinary life, with its pain, difficult people and habitual reactions.
- Day 4 Adv Retreat MN 109 Full Moon Night -Amazing Talk-Consciousness and Karma
Delson reads and comments on MN 109, the Mahapunnama Sutta, the full moon discourse, on the five aggregates affected by clinging.
- Day 6 "Dukkha to Tanha" the Links of Craving and what they are.
Delson continues his teaching on dependent origination (paticca samuppada), linking it to the Four Noble Truths.
- Day 5 Path to Nibbana - Upanisa Sutta-Transcendental DO - Delson Armstrong
Delson recaps the higher jhanas (the arupa ayatanas, from infinite space through neither-perception-nor-non-perception) and how the mind moves through them toward cessation.
- July 20 AN 4.24 - Kaleka Sutta -Delson Armstrong
Delson reads and comments on AN 4.24, the Kalaka Sutta, in which the Buddha says he has directly known whatever is seen, heard, sensed, cognized, reached, sought after and examined by the…
- Day 5 Adv Retreat -Sn 41.7 With Godatta -Liberations -Delson Armstrong
Delson reads SN 41.7, the Godatta Sutta, in which Venerable Godatta asks whether the measureless, nothingness, emptiness and signless liberations of mind are one in meaning.
- How to Face Death with Peace: A Guided Journey with Delson Armstrong
Delson leads a guided meditation that opens with a body scan and loving kindness, extending it outward from the self to the room, the campus and the whole planet.
- June 13 -Day 9...Last Day Talk With Delson Armstrong
Delson closes a retreat with advice on keeping the practice going after it ends.
- Powerful Death Meditation to Find Ultimate Peace-Delson Armstrong
Delson leads a guided meditation that begins with a body scan and loving-kindness, extended from the listener outward to the room, the planet and infinite space.
- Day 1 Adv Retreat AN 3.32 To Ananda -The Mind Stilled
Delson opens a seven-day advanced retreat by reading AN 3.32, the Ananda Sutta, in which Ananda asks whether a bhikkhu can reach a state of mind with no conceit (mana) toward the body or…
- June 29 SN 35.63 'Craving is a Partner' - Migala Sutta
Delson reads and discusses SN 35.63 (Migajala Sutta), in which the Buddha contrasts a lone dweller with one who dwells with a partner, the partner being craving.
- June 29 AN 35.63 'Craving is a Partner' - Migala Sutta
Delson reads and discusses Samyutta Nikaya 35.63, the Migajala Sutta, in which the Buddha defines a "lone dweller" as one who does not delight in, welcome, or hold on to sense experiences…
- June 10 -Day 6...Formations to Feeling-Paticca Samuppada-Delson Armstrong
Delson continues his series on dependent origination, picking up from feeling (vedana) and working back through contact, the six sense bases, nama-rupa, consciousness and the formations.
- Levi Hart Podcast #6 w/ Delson Armstrong - Kundalini , Kriya Yoga, Nirodha Samapatti
Delson Armstrong is interviewed on Levi Hart's podcast about Levi's intense meditation and breathing experiences, including visions he took to be Vishnu's and Brahma's light.
- June 9 -Day 5...Tanha to Dukkha-Paticca Samupada-Delson Armstrong
Delson explains dependent origination (paticca samuppada) as the mechanics by which suffering and karma arise, beginning with aging and death and tracing back through birth, becoming…
- June 8 -Day 4... '12 Step' to Enlightenment -Delson Armstrong
Delson presents the Upanisa Sutta (SN 12.23) and AN 10.1-10.4 as a "12-step" sequence running from faith through gladness, joy, tranquility, comfort, samadhi and equanimity to…
- June 8 -Liberations SN41.7 Sunday Sutta study with Delson Armstrong
Delson studies SN 41.7 (Gaudata's question to Chitta the householder) asking whether the measureless, nothingness, emptiness and signless liberations of mind differ in meaning or only in…
- Delson's True Path, Message to Dharma Community – Tales From Nibbana Episode 4 with Delson Armstrong
Delson clarifies statements he made in his earlier Guru Viking interviews, where he presented himself as a fully awakened arahant reached through TWIM.
- May 25 All is Burning Adhittasutta Sunday Sutta study with Delson Armstrong
Delson works through SN 22.61 (Adittasutta, "Burning"), which says form, feeling, perception, volitional formations and consciousness are all burning, and that seeing this leads to…
- Link of Bhava - What is it?: AN3.76 Bhava Sutta
Delson works through AN3.76 and AN3.77 on bhava (becoming), reading the sutta's repeated lines about karma as the field, consciousness as the seed and craving as the moisture for existence…
- Unlock the Mystery of Bhava in Buddhism -AN3.76 Bhava Sutta -Delson Armstrong
Delson reads AN3.76 and refers to AN3.77 on bhava (becoming), following the Buddha's answer that existence in each realm arises when karma ripens, with consciousness as the seed and…
- Apr 13 2025 Inspiring Sign AN 47.10 & SN 22.37 Delson Armstrong
Delson reads SN 47.10 about nuns established in the four foundations of mindfulness who perceive successively loftier stages, and explains that the 6R's act as an inspiring sign that…
- Mar 30 MN 2 Sabbasava Sutta with Delson Armstrong - Sunday Zoom
Delson reads MN 2, the Sabbasava Sutta, on the taints (asavas) and the seven ways they are abandoned: by seeing, restraining, using, enduring, avoiding, removing and developing.
- Mar 30 2025 Sunday Sutta Study "All the Taints" MN 2-Delson Armstrong
Delson reads MN 2, the Sabbasava Sutta (All the Taints), and comments on it section by section.
- Mar 23 2025 Sunday Suttas "Devouring and Deforming Form" The Five Aggregates w/Delson Armstrong
Delson works through the Khajjaniya Sutta (SN 22.79), reading the Buddha's description of the five aggregates (form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, consciousness) and…
- When Dharmic Views Become Prisons – Tales From Nibbana Pilot Episode with Delson Armstrong
Delson joins a conversation about how views and conceptual frames in meditation can be useful but become limiting when held on to.
- Transcending the Sutta Dharma – Tales From Nibbana Episode 1 with Delson Armstrong
Delson Armstrong and his hosts talk informally about whether an arahant still has karma to work through after the lower fetters are gone.
- Dissolve the 5 Aggregates: Using Guided Loving-Kindness Meditation
Delson leads a guided sitting that begins with relaxing the body and generating loving-kindness for oneself, then for everyone in the room, then for all beings in every direction…
- Dissolve the 5 Aggregates - Using Guided Loving-Kindness Meditation
Delson leads a guided sitting that begins with relaxing the body and building loving-kindness toward oneself, then extends it through the room, in all directions, to beings in other realms…
- Mumbai Retreat February 2025 | Day 7 - Dependent Origination
Delson explains dependent origination as an elaboration of the Four Noble Truths that shows how the mind creates its own suffering.
- Mumbai Retreat February 2025 | Day 3 - Mindfulness
Delson explains mindfulness (sati) as bare observation of what arises and passes away, together with clear comprehension (sampajanna) of where attention is.
- Mumbai Retreat February 2025 | Day 8 - Five Aggregates Guided Meditation
Delson leads a guided sit that begins with relaxing the body and developing loving-kindness, first toward oneself and then extended outward to others in the room, the city, all directions…
- 2025 SN 12.15 'Origin of Suffering'; Sn12.26 'Existence' with Delson Armstrong Sunday Zoom Series
Delson reads and explains two Samyutta suttas on dependent origination, SN 12.26 (Upavana) and SN 12.15 (Kaccanagotta).
- 2025 SN 12.63 'Sons of Flesh' with Delson Armstrong Sunday Series
Delson reads through SN 12.63 'Sons of Flesh' on the four nutriments (edible food, contact, mental volition and consciousness), using the Buddha's similes of the desert couple, the flayed…
- Wrapping Up Sept 2024 Zoom Retreat With Delson Armstrong: The Final Discussion!
Delson closes a Zoom retreat with a short talk and then takes questions.
- Guided Meditation 6 sets 6 -Unique Way of letting go of the links
Delson leads a guided meditation that uses his abbreviated version of the six sets of six from MN148, which he names as the sutta behind it.
- DO Series - Guided Meditation 6 sets 6 & Nibbana Explained
Delson guides a short meditation: loving-kindness to settle the mind, then an abbreviated version of the six sets of six from MN 148, moving through eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind…
- DO Series - The Link of CRAVING/TANHA
Delson explains craving (tanha) as the link in dependent origination that follows feeling and is bridged by the underlying tendencies.
- DO Series - The Link of CLINGING or UPADANA
Delson continues his series on dependent origination with the link of clinging (upadana), which he explains as the "because" that rationalises why we crave, reject or identify with…
- DO Series - Dukkha -the link of Suffering -The Delson Bot Introduced
Delson opens by demonstrating the Delson Bot, an AI chatbot built on his teachings, and promotes an AMA session.
- How To Know If You Are Awakened (with Delson Armstrong)
Delson Armstrong answers questions about awakening, which he describes as seeing experience in a less personal way so that the sticky sense of "me" and "mine" loosens, even if everyday…
- I ask Delson Armstrong about perceiving awareness; consciousness(es) and Abhidhamma
Delson answers an audience question on how awareness (vinnana) is perceived and how to investigate consciousness, including mano and citta.
- DO Series - Introduction and General Q&A Session
Delson explains how his dependent origination booklets came about: a 2021 writing project that grew out of online retreats, with a planned later volume on the path.
- Guided Meditation -Letting go of the 5 Aggregates with Delson Armstrong at the DO Conf.
Delson leads a guided meditation that opens with loving-kindness toward oneself and then radiates it in all directions, from the room out to the world and beyond.
- Talk 10 -Transcendental DO- Dependent Origination Conf. with Delson Armstrong-4K
Delson works through transcendental dependent origination, reading from SN 12.23 (the Upanisa Sutta), and explains how its links run from suffering to the destruction of the taints.
- Talk 9 -Kamma and Consciousness - Dependent Origination Conf. with Delson Armstrong-4K
Delson explains karma as intention and action, the energy that drives the wheel of dependent origination, and argues that the five aggregates are themselves inherited karma with no one who…
- Talk 8 -Upadana (Clinging) - Dependent Origination Conf. with Delson Armstrong-4K
Delson explains upadana (clinging) as the link of dependent origination that follows craving.
- What Exactly is the Deep End of Meditation? | Delson Armstrong
Delson Armstrong describes his own path, from hatha yoga as a teenager through Himalayan training, Kriya, Tibetan practices and metta to TWIM.
- Dependent Origination 2023 - Day 3 Dukkha
Delson explains dukkha as the unsatisfactory, unstable nature of conditioned existence, using the etymology of su and du with ka (stability) and the image of an off-balance chariot wheel.
- Talk 5 -Q&A Dependent Origination Conf with Delson Armstrong
Delson Armstrong answers questions at the close of a course on dependent origination.
- Talk 3 -Dukkha (Suffering) Dependent Origination Conf. with Delson Armstrong
Delson explains dukkha as the unsatisfactory, unstable nature of conditioned existence, using the etymology of sukha and dukkha and the chariot-axle image.
- Day 1/Talk 1 Introduction to Dependent Origination at the DO Conf. with Delson Armstrong
Delson introduces a dependent origination symposium that is rooted in the suttas.
- Dependent Origination Symposium 2023 with Ācariya Delson Armstrong - Talk #1 Introduction
Delson introduces a dependent origination symposium and a meditation based on DN14 and MN147, in which the practitioner begins with loving-kindness and then contemplates the five…
- Guided Meditation -Letting go of the 5 Aggregates with Delson Armstrong at the DO Conference
Delson leads a guided meditation that begins with loving-kindness, first to oneself, then radiated outward in each direction and through the realms until it fills the room, the city and…
- Day 5 Five Aggregates- Japan Retreat Dec 2023
Delson explains the five aggregates as heaps of experience and shows how each one (form, feeling, perception, formations, consciousness) is impermanent, dependently arisen and not self.
- Day 7: Guided Meditation on the 5 Aggregates
Delson leads a guided sitting that begins with loving-kindness toward oneself, radiates it in all directions and into the lower and higher realms, and then turns to the five aggregates.
- Day 5: Dependent Origination Part 1 Netherlands
Delson explains dependent origination as the mechanics by which the mind causes its own suffering, and presents the Four Noble Truths as a method applied through the six R's in each link.
- Day 6: Dependent Origination part 1
Delson explains the first part of dependent origination (paticca samuppada), beginning with the links suffering (dukkha), birth, becoming, clinging and craving, in reverse order.
- Day 7: Dependent Origination part 2
Delson continues his talk on dependent origination, covering contact (phassa), the six sense bases, mentality-materiality, the five aggregates, and the formations, asavas and ignorance…
- Day 5: Dependent Origination part 1
Delson explains dependent origination as the framework in which the four noble truths operate, and shows how the links can be worked with through the 6R's in daily life and meditation.
- Day 4: Jhāna 1
Delson explains the first four jhanas as he teaches them in TWIM: the mind collects around its object, and each jhana has its own factors, from joy born of seclusion in the first to…
- Day 7: Guided Meditation on the Five Aggregates
Delson leads a guided sit that begins with loving-kindness, starting with a feeling of warmth toward oneself and then radiating it to all beings in each direction, up and down, and out…
- Kalimpong 2023 Buddha Pāda Day 6 Dependent Origination Pt 1
Delson Armstrong teaches the twelve links of dependent origination, starting from dukkha and working backwards toward its causes, including the three kinds of dukkha, the birth of new…
- MN 121 17 April 2022
Delson works through several suttas on voidness (sunyata, emptiness), reading MN 121 and SN 35.85 and then SN 41.7 and SN 41.6.
- 13April22 DN15
Delson works through Digha Nikaya 15, the Maha Nidana Sutta, reading and explaining the links of dependent origination from consciousness and mind-body through feeling, craving, clinging…
- Day 6 UK Retreat (Sept 2023) - Dependent Origination Pt 2
Delson concludes his teaching on dependent origination by covering the links from contact through to birth and rebirth, including the sense bases, nama rupa, formations, ignorance and the…
- Day 5 UK Retreat (Sept 2023) - Dependent Origination
Delson teaches dependent origination as an explanation of the Four Noble Truths, working backwards from dukkha through clinging, craving, feeling, contact and the other links.
- Bonhays Day 6 Dependent Origination Part 2
Delson concludes his teaching on dependent origination, covering contact and the six sense bases, nama rupa, the five aggregates, formations, and ignorance.
- Zoom: Process of Dependent Origination Explained Quickly.
Delson explains how mental proliferation (papancha) grows out of contact, feeling and perception, and how craving turns into clinging (upadana).
- The Deep End of Meditation - Rebooting the Brain | Delson Armstrong
In this interview, Delson Armstrong traces his meditation path from hatha yoga, Kriya Yoga and Tibetan practices to TWIM, and describes the jhanas, the samadhi states of yoga, and a…
- Day 7 Dependent Origination Pt 2, BUDDHA PĀDA INSTITUTE, Kalimpong- Delson Armstrong
Delson continues his account of dependent origination, starting from contact and the six sense bases and moving through mentality-materiality (nama-rupa), the sankharas, the taints…
- Day 6 Dependent Origination Pt 1, BUDDHA PĀDA INSTITUTE, Kalimpong- Delson Armstrong
Delson Armstrong begins a series on dependent origination (paticca samuppada), working backwards from dukkha toward ignorance.
- Dependent Origination Part 2 with Delson Armstrong
Delson continues his talk on dependent origination by covering the links before craving, which he treats as old karma inherited in every moment.
- Last Talk of the Retreat with Delson Armstrong July 1
Delson gives a closing talk for a retreat, reading and commenting on MN 74 (the Dighanakha Sutta).
- Guided Meditation Lovingkindness and Letting go of the 5 Aggregates
Delson leads a guided sitting that begins with loving-kindness (metta) toward oneself and radiates it in all directions.
- June Retreat MN 38 Dependent Origination with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads the Mahatanhasankhaya Sutta (MN 38) and explains that consciousness arises dependent on conditions, so the view of a self-same consciousness passing from one life to the next…
- Dependent Origination MN38 at Dhamma Sukha with Delson Armstrong MN 38
Delson reads and comments on MN 38, the Mahatanhasankhaya Sutta (the Greater Discourse on the Destruction of Craving), using it to explain dependent origination.
- Contemplation of Five Aggregates by Delson Armstrong (Audio only)
Delson Armstrong leads a guided session that begins with loving-kindness radiated outward in all directions and then moves into contemplation of the five aggregates.
- Ep201: Revealing Nirodha Samāpatti - Delson Armstrong, Shinzen Young, Chelsey Fasano, Dr Laukkonen
This panel interview, hosted by Steve (Guru Viking), discusses the study "Cessations of Consciousness in Meditation" on nirodha samapatti.
- Delson Armstrong MN 109 Full Moon Night -Aggregates and DO
Delson reads and comments on MN 109, the Mahapunnama Sutta, in which a bhikkhu asks the Buddha about the five aggregates affected by clinging.
- Delson Armstrong MN 109 Full Moon Night -Vesak Talk
Delson Armstrong gives a talk on MN 109, the Mahapunnama Sutta (the Greater Discourse on the Full Moon Night), which he gives on Vesak.
- Delson Live at Dsmc -Day 7- DN 14 Dependent Origination - Introduction
Delson reads from DN14, the Mahapadana Sutta, where the Bodhisatta Vipassi sees old age, sickness, death and a wandering ascetic, then withdraws and reflects on what conditions aging and…
- 2022 Aug Retreat SN 35.95 In the Seen is only the Seen...
Delson reads SN 35.95, in which Malunkyaputta asks for a brief exhortation, and explains it with the Bahiya Sutta (Ud 1.10) and SN 42.11.
- MN 143 - Anāthapiṇḍikovādasutta from Anathapandika's Park!
Delson reads MN 143, the Anathapindikovada Sutta, in which Sariputta visits the dying householder Anathapindika in Savatthi.
- MN 143 - Anāthapiṇḍikovādasutta delivered in Anathapindika's Park
Delson reads through MN 143, the Anathapindikovada Sutta, in which Sariputta visits the gravely ill householder Anathapindika and instructs him not to cling to or depend on the senses…
- Second discourse Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta - at the same location the Buddha delivered it
Delson gives a talk on the Anattalakkhana Sutta, the second discourse the Buddha gave, reading it aloud and explaining it at the location where it was delivered.
- Deerpark Retreat Day 8 'Deeper Aspects of Dhamma Pt 2' w/Delson Armstrong
Delson reads through MN44, the discourse where the nun Dhammadinna explains identity, its origin, its cessation and the path to Visakha, and he comments on each answer.
- Deerpark Retreat Day 6 'Mental Proliferation' & Guided Meditation w/Delson Armstrong
Delson reads and explains two suttas on how the sense of "I" feeds mental proliferation: the Madhupindika Sutta (MN 18), where contact, feeling, perception and thinking are traced to…
- Day 6 Bodhgaya
Delson reads and comments on MN 143, the Anathapindikovada Sutta, in which Sariputta teaches the dying householder Anathapindika to stop clinging to the six sense bases, contact, feeling…
- 2022 Aug Retreat MN 18 Honeyball -Proliferation
Delson reads and explains MN 18, the Madhupindika Sutta (honey ball discourse), and the exposition given by Maha Kaccana.
- Day 8 MN 112 The Six Fold Purity -What is an Arahant -Delson Armstrong
Delson reads MN 112, the Chabbisodhana Sutta on the six-fold purity, and comments on it section by section.
- Day 7 SN35.95 In the Seen is only the seen... Aug Retreat 2022 -Delson Armstrong
Delson reads SN35.95, in which Malunkyaputta asks for a brief teaching and the Buddha explains that craving arises only through contact and feeling.
- Day 7 2022 July#2 Retreat Mn 109 7-27-22 - The 5 Aggregates
Delson reads from MN 109 (Maha Punnama Sutta) on the five aggregates affected by craving and clinging.
- Day 5 2022 July#2 Retreat SN 33 7-25-22 - The 44 Knowledges
Delson reads SN 33, the Cases of Knowledge, and explains the 44 cases as the eleven links of dependent origination, each with its origin, cessation and the path to its cessation, set…
- Day 9 2022 MN 44 Cullavedalla Sutta -July Retreat - -with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads through MN 44, the Culavedalla (Shorter Questions and Answers) Sutta, in which the layman Visakha questions the nun Dhammadinna about identity, its origin and cessation, the…
- Day 7 2022 MN 74 Dighanakha Sutta -July Retreat - -with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads and comments on MN 74, the Dighanakha Sutta, in which the wanderer Dighanakha holds that nothing is acceptable to him and is led to see that clinging even to a view of no…
- Day 5 2022 SN 12.2 DO Analysis -July 4th -with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads through SN 12.2 on dependent origination, working link by link from aging and death back to ignorance.
- Day 6 -2022 10 Day June Retreat - SN 12.32 Pt.2 Dependent Origination
Delson reads and explains SN 12.32, the Kalara discourse, in which Sariputta explains dependent origination in answer to the Buddha's questions about how his arahatship was attained.
- Day 5 -2022 10 Day June Retreat - MN 38 Dependent Origination -Intro
Delson Armstrong reads and explains MN 38, the Mahatanhasankhaya Sutta, on the destruction of craving.
- Day 4 -2022 10 Day June Retreat - MN 131 'A Single Excellent Night'
Delson reads and comments on MN 131, the Bhaddekaratta Sutta (A Single Excellent Night), and explains the Buddha's instruction not to revive the past or build hopes on the future.
- Day 7 May Retreat Talk MN149 /MN77 Suttas with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads MN 149 (Mahasalayatanika Sutta) and explains how not knowing the six sense bases as they actually are leads to craving, clinging and renewed becoming, and how seeing…
- Day 8 May Retreat MN 22 "The Simile of the Snake" with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads and comments on MN 22, the Alagaddupama Sutta (the simile of the snake), which contrasts wrong grasp of the Dhamma with right grasp and describes seeing the five aggregates as…
- Day 4 May Retreat DN 14 Dependent Origination Pt. 1 with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads from the Mahapadana Sutta (DN 14) on Prince Vipassi, who sees old age, sickness and death, goes forth, and through wisdom born of collectedness works out the chain of…
- Day 8 Apr Retreat - Mulapariyaya Sutta MN 1- The Root of All Things with D. Armstrong
Delson reads MN 1, the Mulapariyaya Sutta (the root of all things), and explains how a worldling conceives self in the five aggregates, earth, beings, jhanas and Nibbana, while a disciple…
- Day 4 Apr Retreat DN 22 (5)- The Foundations of Mindfulness - 4 Noble Truths - D. Armstrong
Delson reads section 5 of DN 22, the Maha Satipatthana Sutta, which defines each of the Four Noble Truths.
- Day 4 Apr Retreat -DN15 Pt 1 Dependent Origination
Delson reads through the Maha Nidana Sutta (DN15), the Buddha's teaching to Ananda on dependent origination, and explains it link by link, from contact and feeling through craving…
- Day 5 Apr Retreat DN15 Pt. 1 -Dependent Origination w/Dhammachariya Delson Armstrong
Delson works through DN15, the Maha Nidana Sutta, on dependent origination (paticca samuppada).
- MN 109 : The Greater Discourse on the Full-Moon Night - Delson Armstrong
Delson reads and comments on MN 109, the Maha Punnama Sutta, explaining the five aggregates affected by clinging, how craving and identification sustain them, and how seeing them as…
- Online Retreat 20 Dec 2021 Dhamma talk MN 38 and Q & A With Delson Armstrong
Delson reads MN 38, the Mahatanhasankhaya Sutta, and explains dependent origination as a chain from ignorance through formations, consciousness, contact, feeling, craving and clinging to…
- 4 Dec 2021 Online Retreat Q & A With Delson Armstrong Session 1 of 2
Delson answers questions from a retreat Q&A on doctrine and practice.
- 1 Dec 2021 Online Retreat Q & A with Delson # 1 part 1 of 2 - AUDIO ONLY
Delson answers questions from retreat participants in the first online retreat Q&A.
- Zoom Talk MN 22 Simile of the Snake -with Delson Armstrong
Delson reads and comments on MN 22, the Alagaddupama Sutta (simile of the snake), in which the Buddha corrects the monk Arittha for holding that sensual pleasures cannot obstruct someone…
- Zoom Talk MN 106 with Delson Armstrong -The Imperturbable
Delson reads and comments on MN 106 (Ananjasappaya Sutta, "The Way to the Imperturbable"), which describes how a practitioner moves from the fourth jhana through the formless attainments…
- Oct 16, 2021 - Questions and Answers with Delson and Syl
Delson answers a series of live questions from listeners on Dhamma topics.
- GTOG Sunday Meditation Session: Sutta reading (MN2 - Sabbasava Sutta) by Delson Armstrong
Delson reads MN2, the Sabbasava Sutta, on the taints (asavas) and the six ways the Buddha gives for abandoning them.
- May 29, 2021– DN 33 – The Chanting Together – Second Recitation
Delson continues his series on the sets of five in DN33, the Sangiti Sutta, the second recitation.
- May 22, 2021– DN 33 – The Chanting Together – First Recitation
Delson reads the first recitation of the Sangeeti Sutta (DN 33), in which Sariputta restates the Dhamma as numbered sets from one to four, and comments on each item in terms of his TWIM…
- May 15, 2021 – MN 43 – The Greater Series of Questions and Answers
Delson reads MN 43, the Maha Vedalla Sutta, on wisdom, consciousness, feeling and perception, and on the jhanas, the faculties, cessation, and the signless and voidness deliverances of mind.
- May 8, 2021 - MN 44 The Shorter Series of Questions and Answers - Many Aspects of the Dhamma
Delson walks through MN 44, the Shorter Discourse on Questions and Answers, in which the nun Dhammadinna explains identity, its origin, its cessation and the path to it.
- Delson explanation of SN 35.95 the Malunkyaputta sutta at GTOG Sunday session
Delson reads and comments on SN 35.95, the Malunkyaputta Sutta, in which the Buddha gives a brief instruction: in the seen there is merely the seen, and so on for hearing, sensing and…
- Apr 10 2021 - MN 1 - The Root of All Things - Deconceptualizing Reality through Non-Identification
Delson reads and comments on MN 1, the Mula Pariyaya Sutta (The Root of All Things), using Bhikkhu Bodhi's translation.
- Mar 28 2021 - MN 113 - The True Person - Total Non-Identification with Experiences Leads to Nibbana
Delson reads MN 113 (the Sappurisa Sutta, "The True Person") and explains how the Buddha contrasts an untrue person, who takes pride in family, status, gain, learning, ascetic practices or…
- Mar 21 2021 - MN 74 - To Dighanaka - Non-attachment to Views through Non-attachment to Feeling
Delson reads and comments on MN 74, the Diganaka Sutta, in which the wanderer Diganaka says "nothing is acceptable to me" and the Buddha shows that holding even that view is still clinging.
- Mar 14 2021 - MN 146 - Advice from Nandaka - The Unfolding Path to Reality
Delson reads and comments on MN 146 (Nandakovada Sutta), in which the elder Nandaka teaches the Buddha's foster mother Maha Pajapati Gotami and her five hundred nuns by asking them whether…
- Mar 7 2021 - SN 22.86 - With Anuradha - Self and Not-Self and the Four Noble Truths
Delson reads and explains SN 22.86 (the Anuradha Sutta), in which Anuradha answers wanderers' questions about the Tathagata after death.
- Feb 28 2021 - MN 23 - The Anthill - Right Effort Leads to the Mind of the Arahant
Delson reads and explains MN 23, the Vammika Sutta, in which the Buddha explains to Kumara Kassapa the riddle of the anthill, the brahmin and the knife.
- Feb 7 2021 - MN 18 - The Honeyball - Cessation of Mental Proliferation is Nibbana
Delson reads and comments on MN 18, the Madhupindika (Honeyball) Sutta, and explains how perceptions and notions born of mental proliferation arise through contact, feeling, perception and…
- Jan 31 2021 - MN 137 - The Analysis of the Six Sense Fields
Delson reads and comments on MN 137, the Salayatana Vibhanga Sutta (the analysis of the six sense fields), covering the six internal and external bases, the six types of consciousness and…
- Jan 24 2021 - MN 64 - The Greater Discourse to Mālunkyāputta - Paths of the Anagami and the Arahant
Delson reads MN 64, the Greater Discourse to Malunkyaputta, and explains the five lower fetters, their underlying tendencies, and how they are abandoned through seeing the five aggregates…
- Dec 6 MN 28 The Greater Discourse on the Simile of the Elephant's Footprint - The Four Noble Truths
Delson reads MN 28 and explains how Sariputta's discourse analyses the Four Noble Truths, with the five aggregates affected by clinging as suffering.
- Nov 29 2020 - MN 11 - The Shorter Discourse on the Lion's Roar - Cessation of Clinging and Being
Delson reads MN 11, the Shorter Discourse on the Lion's Roar, and explains the four kinds of clinging (to sensual pleasures, views, rites and rituals, and a doctrine of self).
- Nov 22 2020 - MN 121 - The Shorter Discourse on Voidness - The Signless and Empty Mind of an Arahant
Delson reads MN 121, the Cula Sunnata Sutta, in which the Buddha describes abiding in voidness by noticing what is absent from experience and what remains.
- Day-5 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-17) with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers questions from day five of an online ten-day retreat in November 2020.
- Day-5 QA - Online 10-day Retreat (Nov-3) with Delson Armstrong
Delson answers questions from a day of an online retreat.
- Nov 15 2020 - MN 143 - Advice to Anāthapiṇḍika - Disengaging Consciousness Towards Nibbana
Delson reads and comments on MN 143, the Anathapindikovada Sutta, in which Sariputta advises the dying householder Anathapindika to stop clinging to the six senses, their contact and…
- Nov 8 2020 - MN 138 - The Exposition of a Summary - Non-Grasping Consciousness Leads to Nibbana
Delson reads MN 138 (the Exposition of a Summary), in which Maha Kacchana explains the Buddha's brief teaching that a mind not scattered externally, not stuck internally, and not clinging…
- Oct 18 2020 - MN147 - The Shorter Discourse of Advice to Rahula - The Process of Un-Being
Delson reads MN147, the Shorter Discourse of Advice to Rahula, and presents it as the last part of a trilogy of Rahula suttas.
- Oct 11 MN 133 - Mahākaccāna and a Single Excellent Night - The Nature of Consciousness in Meditation
Delson reads MN 133, the Single Excellent Night exposition given by Maha Kaccana, which says not to revive the past or build hopes on the future, and to see each presently arisen state…